EMBASSY WET AGAIN
DIPLOMATIC LIQUOR UNDER HEAVY GUARD IN U.S.A. BRITISH BAN LIFTED Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thurs. The British Embassy, under official seal and permit, has received a full consignment of assorted liquors, which came from the ship Baltimore under heavy guard. This is the first liquor shipment to the Embassy since Sir Esme Howard declined to receive liquors. . Sir Esmo Howard, then British Ambassador at Washington, announced on May 24 last year that he was prepared to surrender the privilege of ’'diplomatic liquor,” and il! the XJ.S.A. Government intimated a. desire to cancel that privilege he would be glad to cooperate with other members of the Diplomatic Corps In carrying out that desire. No desire was shown by the authorities, however, to ask tho foreign diplomats to forgo their special liquor privileges in their residences and chancellories.
Later Sir Esme Howard declined to receive liquor at the British Embassy.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 997, 13 June 1930, Page 9
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